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Tributes have been streaming in for 11-year-old Kile Glover, the stepson of singer Usher who passed away yesterday from injuries sustained in a jet ski accident.
He was declared brain dead two weeks ago, and died from heart failure after being taken off life support.
A neurologist who did not have any involvement in his care has explained his case to MTV.
"There is no one that has been declared brain dead that has survived to being functional," said Dr. Brent Masel, national director of the Brain Injury Association of America and medical director of the Transitional Learning Center of Galveston, Texas. "They will not get better.
"When someone is declared brain dead, it's not that their brain is not functioning at all. There are two components to the brain, the cerebrum, which is the thinking part and the brain stem, which narrows and becomes the spinal cord.
"The thinking part of the brain is no longer functioning and all the patient has functioning is the brain stem," he continued. "Very often what happens when you're deciding if someone is brain dead, you take them off the respirator and they're not even breathing and the only thing going is their heart, which will stop functioning if you're not breathing."
Heartbreakingly, Dr Masel added that, had Glover been positioned different by just a few milimetres, he may have come out of the accident with very different injuries.
Source:
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/82209/Kile-Glover-Death-Neurologist-Explains-Why-Ushers-Stepson-Could-Not-Recover
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